Organic Market: Organic market since 1940 is growing and it has achieved an annual pace of 20% since 1990’s.The base line projections of USDA have optimistic figures about the net farm income, which is, bound to rise to $54 billions with the supporting crops. The organic market trends are mainly due to the awareness among the consumers regarding the havocs of synthetic pesticides.
Seed and planting stock should be strictly organic or should be procured from organic sellers. In special case, non-organic planting stock can be used on documentation proof of unavailability of organic seed. Perennial stock can be carried over to organic production as a transition stock but annual plant stock must be organic in any case. (more…)
“An organic farm, properly speaking, is not one that uses certain methods and substances and avoids others; it is a farm whose structure is formed in imitation of the structure of a natural system; it has the integrity, the independence, and the benign dependence of an organism. ‘ − Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land, 1981
The organic farming guidelines include not so complex methods but simple techniques those are harmonious with nature. Actually, in this, the interception level is when the out-sourced help or labor is needed.
1. Soil check
2. Tillage and cultivation
3. Manure application
4. planting stocks
5. crop rotation
6. weeds and pest management
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